A poem I wrote in dedication to our soldiers. Do you like it?

Title: War of the Soul

they fight for freedom..

on bitter fields and in dark bushes..

where our young learn of a cold world

with guns thrust into willing hands..

to fight the good fight

and when the life blood of them..

have been squeezed and wrung from them,

we sigh and cry for their lives..lost

and loves left behind to mourn for life

so abruptly ended

while in our hearts mind,

we whisper unspoken thoughts..

thoughts that seem to chap our lips

as they pass through our mind..

So, we venture to imagine a world..

that is somehow different from reality..

thinking to ourselves, ' what the world needs now..

is love sweet love ', not war.. not death..

only a gentle kindness..

dreaming of the day when our youth

will not carry the guns of life..

yet they will be armed

with the ammunition to shoot stars,,

armed with the ammunition to kill despondence..

and win the wars of the soul.